Amy Adams, Steve McQueen and Boots Riley will attend and accept honors at the 2018 SFFILM Awards Night (formerly Film Society Awards Night), its annual fundraising celebration honoring achievement in filmmaking craft. This year’s edition of the dinner and awards presentation event—leveraging its new position in the fall after a wildly successful move in 2017—takes place Monday, December 3 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Center.
SFFILM Awards Night supports the organization’s various year-round initiatives, especially SFFILM Education, which will utilize funds raised to increase the number of Bay Area youth served by film screenings that promote media literacy and inspire meaningful social dialogue; gather student, family, and teacher feedback to build a national platform for sharing lesson plans for current films; and expand the organization’s family-oriented public programming.
The guests of honor at SFFILM Awards Night will be the recipients of the organization’s prestigious awards for film craft: Amy Adams (Vice, Annapurna Pictures) will receive the Peter J. Owens Award for Acting; Steve McQueen (Widows, 20th Century Fox) will receive the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction; and emerging breakthrough talent Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You, Annapurna Pictures) will receive the Kanbar Award for Storytelling. Celebrity presenters and additional awards will be announced in the coming weeks.
“We are thrilled that Awards Night’s position in December has once again inspired such exceptional talent to join us,” said SFFILM Executive Director Noah Cowan. “These artists were selected because their work embodies the values of the Bay Area—in particular their role in championing innovative cinema, making the industry more diverse and inclusive, and actively participating in the social dialogue that is so desperately needed today. We hope that, by championing these artists and these values, SFFILM can have a positive effect on the awards conversations that dominate media this time of year.”
One of San Francisco’s most highly anticipated film events and social gatherings, SFFILM Awards Night is taking place for the second time in December, further solidifying its new position in the city’s fall calendar after decades as part of April’s San Francisco International Film Festival and better leveraging the Bay Area’s increasing awards season relevance. Public screenings and onstage talks will accompany SFFILM Awards Night, with announcements to follow in the coming weeks.
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Amy Adams, Steve McQueen and Boots Riley to Receive Awards at 2018 SFFILM Awards
Amy Adams, Steve McQueen and Boots Riley will attend and accept honors at the 2018 SFFILM Awards Night (formerly Film Society Awards Night), its annual fundraising celebration honoring achievement in filmmaking craft. This year’s edition of the dinner and awards presentation event—leveraging its new position in the fall after a wildly successful move in 2017—takes place Monday, December 3 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Center.
SFFILM Awards Night supports the organization’s various year-round initiatives, especially SFFILM Education, which will utilize funds raised to increase the number of Bay Area youth served by film screenings that promote media literacy and inspire meaningful social dialogue; gather student, family, and teacher feedback to build a national platform for sharing lesson plans for current films; and expand the organization’s family-oriented public programming.
The guests of honor at SFFILM Awards Night will be the recipients of the organization’s prestigious awards for film craft: Amy Adams (Vice, Annapurna Pictures) will receive the Peter J. Owens Award for Acting; Steve McQueen (Widows, 20th Century Fox) will receive the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction; and emerging breakthrough talent Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You, Annapurna Pictures) will receive the Kanbar Award for Storytelling. Celebrity presenters and additional awards will be announced in the coming weeks.
“We are thrilled that Awards Night’s position in December has once again inspired such exceptional talent to join us,” said SFFILM Executive Director Noah Cowan. “These artists were selected because their work embodies the values of the Bay Area—in particular their role in championing innovative cinema, making the industry more diverse and inclusive, and actively participating in the social dialogue that is so desperately needed today. We hope that, by championing these artists and these values, SFFILM can have a positive effect on the awards conversations that dominate media this time of year.”
One of San Francisco’s most highly anticipated film events and social gatherings, SFFILM Awards Night is taking place for the second time in December, further solidifying its new position in the city’s fall calendar after decades as part of April’s San Francisco International Film Festival and better leveraging the Bay Area’s increasing awards season relevance. Public screenings and onstage talks will accompany SFFILM Awards Night, with announcements to follow in the coming weeks.
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Polish Drama COLD WAR Leads Nominations for 31st European Film Awards
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The Polish drama Cold War (Zimna wojna) directed by Ali Abbasi leads the nominations for the 31st European Film Awards with 5 nods including Best European Film, Best Director, European Screenwriter along with Best Actress for Joanna Kulig as Zula, and Best Actor for Tomasz Kot as Wiktor. The more than 3,500 EFA Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on December 15 in Seville.
31st European Film Awards Nominations
EUROPEAN FILM 2018
BORDER GRÄNS Sweden, Denmark DIRECTED BY Ali Abbasi WRITTEN BY Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf & John Ajvide Lindqvist PRODUCED BY Nina Bisgaard, Piodor Gustafsson & Petra Jönsson COLD WAR ZIMNA WOJNA Poland, UK, France WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Pawel Pawlikowski PRODUCED BY Ewa Puszczynska & Tanya Seghatchian DOGMAN Italy, France DIRECTED BY Matteo Garrone WRITTEN BY Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti & Massimo Gaudioso PRODUCED BY Matteo Garrone, Jean Labadie, Jeremy Thomas & Paolo Del Brocco GIRL Belgium, Netherlands DIRECTED BY Lukas Dhont WRITTEN BY Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens PRODUCED BY Dirk Impens [caption id="attachment_30997" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]
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HAPPY AS LAZZARO
LAZZARO FELICE
Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Alice Rohrwacher
PRODUCED BY Carlo Cresto-Dina, Tiziana Soudani, Alexandra Henochsberg, Grégory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Pierre-François Piet, Michel Merkt, Michael Weber & Viola Fügen
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2018
A WOMAN CAPTURED Hungary, Germany DIRECTED BY Bernadett Tuza-Ritter PRODUCED BY Julianna Ugrin & Viki Réka Kiss BERGMAN – A YEAR IN A LIFE BERGMAN – ETT ÅR, ETT LIV Sweden, Germany DIRECTED BY Jane Magnusson PRODUCED BY Cecilia Nessen, Fredrik Heinig & Mattias Nohrborg OF FATHERS AND SONS Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar DIRECTED BY Talal Derki PRODUCED BY Tobias Siebert, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme & Hans Robert Eisenhauer THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS Denmark, Finland, Sweden DIRECTED BY Simon Lereng Wilmont PRODUCED BY Monica Hellström, Tobias Janson & Sami Jahnukainen THE SILENCE OF OTHERS Spain, USA DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Almudena Carracedo & Robert BaharEUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2018
Ali Abbasi for BORDER Matteo Garrone for DOGMAN Samuel Maoz for FOXTROT Pawel Pawlikowski for COLD WAR Alice Rohrwacher for HAPPY AS LAZZAROEUROPEAN ACTRESS 2018
Marie Bäumer as Romy Schneider in 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as Halla / Ása in WOMAN AT WAR Joanna Kulig as Zula in COLD WAR Bárbara Lennie as Petra in PETRA Eva Melander as Tina in BORDER Alba Rohrwacher as Antonia old in HAPPY AS LAZZAROEUROPEAN ACTOR 2018
Jakob Cedergren as Asger in THE GUILTY Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde in THE HAPPY PRINCE Marcello Fonte as Marcello in DOGMAN Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg in BORG/MCENROE Tomasz Kot as Wiktor in COLD WAR Victor Polster as Lara in GIRLEUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2018
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GRÄNS (BORDER) by Ali Abbasi[/caption]
Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf & John Ajvide Lindqvist for BORDER
Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti & Massimo Gaudioso for DOGMAN
Gustav Möller & Emil Nygaard Albertsen for THE GUILTY
Pawel Pawlikowski for COLD WAR
Alice Rohrwacher for HAPPY AS LAZZARO
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165 Films Documentary Feature Films Submitted for 2018 Oscar Race
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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind[/caption]
One hundred sixty-six features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. This year, for the first time, films that have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival or have been submitted in the Foreign Language Film category as their country’s official selection, are also eligible in the category. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced on December 17.
Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
The 91st Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Above and Beyond: NASA’S Journey to Tomorrow”
“Active Measures”
“Amazing Grace”
“American Chaos”
“Andy Irons: Kissed by God”
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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco[/caption]
“Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco”
“Avicii: True Stories”
“Bali: Beats of Paradise”
“Bathtubs over Broadway”
“Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché”
“Believer”
“Better Angels”
“Bill Coors: The Will to Live”
“Bisbee ’17”
“The Bleeding Edge”
“Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat”
“Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine”
“Call Her Ganda”
“Charm City”
“Chef Flynn”
“The China Hustle”
“Christian Audigier The Vif”
“The Cleaners”
“Communion”
“Crime + Punishment”
“Dark Money”
“Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders”
“The Dawn Wall”
“The Distant Barking of Dogs”
“Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes”
“Drug$”
“Eating Animals”
“Eldorado”
“Fahrenheit 11/9”
“Fail State”
“Family in Transition”
“Far from the Tree”
“Filmworker”
“The First Patient”
“Foreign Land”
“40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie”
“Free Solo”
“Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable”
“Generation Wealth”
“Ghost Hunting”
“Ghosthunter”
“The Gilligan Manifesto”
“The Gospel According to André”
“Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami”
“Graves without a Name”
“The Great Buster: A Celebration”
“Hal”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Half the Picture”
“The Heart of Nuba”
“Hillbilly”
“The Homeless Chorus Speaks”
“Hondros”
“Howard”
“In Search of Greatness”
“In the Land of Pomegranates”
“Inventing Tomorrow”
“Invisible Hands”
“Itzhak”
“Jane Fonda in Five Acts”
“John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection”
“The Judge”
“Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story”
“Killer Bees”
“The King”
“King in the Wilderness”
“Kusama – Infinity”
“The Last Race”
“Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy”
“Letter from Masanjia”
“Licu, a Romanian Story”
“Living in the Future’s Past”
“Liyana”
“Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle”
“Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story”
“Love, Cecil”
“Love, Gilda”
“Love Is Tolerance – Tolerance Is Love – Make Tolerance Great Again!”
“Making The Five Heartbeats”
“Maria by Callas”
“Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.”
“McQueen”
“Minding the Gap”
“Monrovia, Indiana”
“The Most Unknown”
“New Moon”
“93Queen”
“Nossa Chape”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“Of Love & Law”
“On Her Shoulders”
“Opera about Poland”
“The Opera House”
“The Oslo Diaries”
“The Other Side of Everything”
“The Panama Papers”
“Path of Blood”
“People’s Republic of Desire”
“Philosopher King – Lee Teng-hui’s Dialogue”
“Pick of the Litter”
“Piripkura”
“Police Killing”
“Pope Francis – A Man of His Word”
“The Price of Everything”
“The Price of Free”
“Qiu (Inmates)”
“Quincy”
“RBG”
“The Rachel Divide”
“The Raft”
“Recovery Boys”
“Restoring Tomorrow”
“Reversing Roe”
“The Road Movie”
“Robin Williams: Come inside My Mind”
“Ruben Blades Is Not My Name”
“Samouni Road”
“Saving Brinton”
“Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland”
“Science Fair”
“Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”
“Searching for Ingmar Bergman”
“Seeing Allred”
“The Sentence”
“Shirkers”
“Shot in the Dark”
“The Silence of Others”
“Sisters of the Wilderness”
“A Son of Man”
“Songwriter”
“Stan”
“Studio 54”
“Summer in the Forest”
“Tea with the Dames”
“That Summer”
“That Way Madness Lies…”
“They Fight”
“They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead”
“This Is Congo”
“This Is Home: A Refugee Story”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“To Be Continued”
“Transformer”
“Travel Ban”
“The Trial”
“Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace”
“Trust Machine”
“Under the Wire”
“United Skates”
“Unknown Distance”
“Up Down and Sideways”
“The Waldheim Waltz”
“We Could Be Heroes”
“Weed the People”
“What Haunts Us”
“What Lies Upstream”
“Whitney”
“Wonderful Losers: A Different World”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
“Yellow Is Forbidden”
“Yellowing”
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THE FAVOURITE Starring Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz Leads 2018 British Independent Film Awards Nominations
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The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s black comedy about the 18th century court of Queen Anne, leads the list of nominations for the 2018 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with 13 noms including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. The Favourite also sweeps the technical categories, newly introduced for the 2017 awards, with nominations for seven of the nine awards, including Best Production Design, Best Cinematography supported by Blackmagic Design, Best Make-up & Hair Design and Best Costume Design.
The Best British Independent Film nominees are American Animals – with 11 nominations, Beast – with 10 nominations, Disobedience – with 5 nominations, You Were Never Really Here – with 8 nominations, and The Favourite.
The nominations list demonstrates a record year for female representation, with over 40% of the individual nominations recognizing women in the industry across directing, writing, producing, performance and craft. Female nominees make up over 50% of the talent nominated for Best British Independent Film and dominate both Most Promising Newcomer and Breakthrough Producer supported by Creativity Media, with four out of five nominations for each award. Over 140 British films were submitted for consideration and 37 different British feature films have been nominated across the BIFA categories.
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
AMERICAN ANIMALS BART LAYTON / KATHERINE BUTLER / DIMITRI DOGANIS / DERRIN SCHLESINGER / MARY JANE SKALSKI BEAST MICHAEL PEARCE / KRISTIAN BRODIE / LAUREN DARK / IVANA MACKINNON DISOBEDIENCE SEBASTIÁN LELIO / REBECCA LENKIEWICZ / ED GUINEY / FRIDA TORRESBLANCO / RACHEL WEISZ THE FAVOURITE YORGOS LANTHIMOS / DEBORAH DAVIS / TONY MCNAMARA / CECI DEMPSEY / ED GUINEY / LEE MAGIDAY YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE LYNNE RAMSAY / PASCAL CAUCHETEUX / ROSA ATTAB / JAMES WILSON / REBECCA O’BRIENBEST SCREENPLAY
AMERICAN ANIMALS BART LAYTON BEAST MICHAEL PEARCE DISOBEDIENCE SEBASTIÁN LELIO / REBECCA LENKIEWICZ THE FAVOURITE DEBORAH DAVIS / TONY MCNAMARA YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE LYNNE RAMSAYBEST DIRECTOR
AMERICAN ANIMALS BART LAYTON BEAST MICHAEL PEARCE THE FAVOURITE YORGOS LANTHIMOS LEAN ON PETE ANDREW HAIGH YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE LYNNE RAMSAYBEST BRITISH SHORT
THE BIG DAY DAWN SHADFORTH / KELLIE SMITH / MICHELLE STEIN BITTER SEA FATEME AHMADI / EMMA PARSONS THE FIELD SANDHYA SURI / BALTHAZAR DE GANAY / THOMAS BIDEGAIN POMMEL PARIS ZARCILLA / SEBASTIAN BROWN / IVAN KELAVA TO KNOW HIM TED EVANS / KELLIE SMITH / JENNIFER MONKS / MICHELLE STEINBEST ACTOR
THE HAPPY PRINCE RUPERT EVERETT LEAN ON PETE CHARLIE PLUMMER A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN JOE COLE STAN & OLLIE STEVE COOGAN YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE JOAQUIN PHOENIXBEST ACTRESS
BEAST JESSIE BUCKLEY DISOBEDIENCE RACHEL WEISZ THE ESCAPE GEMMA ARTERTON THE FAVOURITE OLIVIA COLMAN FUNNY COW MAXINE PEAKEBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
AMERICAN ANIMALS EVAN PETERS AMERICAN ANIMALS BARRY KEOGHAN COLETTE DOMINIC WEST DISOBEDIENCE ALESSANDRO NIVOLA LEAN ON PETE STEVE BUSCEMIBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
APOSTASY MOLLY WRIGHT DISOBEDIENCE RACHEL MCADAMS THE FAVOURITE EMMA STONE THE FAVOURITE RACHEL WEISZ STAN & OLLIE NINA ARIANDAMOST PROMISING NEWCOMER
APOSTASY MOLLY WRIGHT BEAST JESSIE BUCKLEY BEEN SO LONG MICHAELA COEL JELLYFISH LIV HILL OBEY MARCUS RUTHERFORDTHE DISCOVERY AWARD
THE DIG ANDY TOHILL / RYAN TOHILL / STUART DRENNAN / BRIAN J. FALCONER IRENE’S GHOST IAIN CUNNINGHAM / REBECCA MARK-LAWSON / DAVID ARTHUR / ELLIE LAND A MOMENT IN THE REEDS MIKKO MAKELA / JAMES WATSON SUPER NOVEMBER DOUGLAS KING / JOSIE LONG VOYAGEUSE MAY MILES THOMASTHE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD (DEBUT DIRECTOR)
APOSTASY DANIEL KOKOTAJLO BEAST MICHAEL PEARCE CALIBRE MATT PALMER PILI LEANNE WELHAM RAY & LIZ RICHARD BILLINGHAMDEBUT SCREENWRITER
AMERICAN ANIMALS BART LAYTON APOSTASY DANIEL KOKOTAJLO BEAST MICHAEL PEARCE CALIBRE MATT PALMER THE PARTY’S JUST BEGINNING KAREN GILLANBEST DOCUMENTARY
BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY STEVE SULLIVAN EVELYN ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL / JOANNA NATASEGARA ISLAND STEVEN EASTWOOD / ELHUM SHAKERIFAR NAE PASARAN FELIPE BUSTOS SIERRA UNDER THE WIRE CHRIS MARTIN / TOM BRISLEYBREAKTHROUGH PRODUCER
APOSTASY MARCIE MACLELLAN BEAST KRISTIAN BRODIE CALIBRE ANNA GRIFFIN RAY & LIZ JACQUI DAVIES STAN & OLLIE FAYE WARDBEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM
CAPERNAUM NADINE LABAKI / JIHAD HOJEILY / MICHELLE KESERWANI / KHALED MOUZANAR / MICHEL MERKT COLD WAR PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI / JANUSZ GLOWACKI / EWA PUSZCZYNSKA / TANYA SEGHATCHIAN THE RIDER CHLOÉ ZHAO / MOLLYE ASHER / SACHA BEN HARROCHE / BERT HAMELINCK ROMA ALFONSO CUARÓN / GABRIELA RODRIGUEZ / NICOLÁS CELIS SHOPLIFTERS HIROKAZU KOREEDABEST CASTING
AMERICAN ANIMALS AVY KAUFMAN APOSTASY MICHELLE SMITH BEAST JULIE HARKIN THE FAVOURITE DIXIE CHASSAY STAN & OLLIE ANDY PRYORBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
AMERICAN ANIMALS OLE BRATT BIRKELAND THE FAVOURITE ROBBIE RYAN LEAN ON PETE MAGNUS NORDENHOF JØNCK A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN DAVID UNGARO YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE TOM TOWNENDBEST COSTUME DESIGN
COLETTE ANDREA FLESCH AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN ALYSSA TULL THE FAVOURITE SANDY POWELL PETERLOO JACQUELINE DURRAN STAN & OLLIE GUY SPERANZABEST EDITING
AMERICAN ANIMALS NICK FENTON / JULIAN HART / CHRIS GILL THE FAVOURITE YORGOS MAVROPSARIDIS HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD BEN WHEATLEY A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN MARC BOUCROT YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE JOE BINIBEST MAKE-UP & HAIR DESIGN
COLETTE IVANA PRIMORAC THE FAVOURITE NADIA STACEY PETERLOO CHRISTINE BLUNDELL A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN STACEY LOUISE HOLMAN STAN & OLLIE MARK COULIER / JEREMY WOODHEADBEST MUSIC
AMERICAN ANIMALS ANNE NIKITIN BEAST JIM WILLIAMS FUNNY COW RICHARD HAWLEY ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS AARON CUPPLES YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE JONNY GREENWOODBEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
COLETTE MICHAEL CARLIN THE FAVOURITE FIONA CROMBIE PETERLOO SUZIE DAVIES RAY & LIZ BECK RAINFORD STAN & OLLIE JOHN PAUL KELLYBEST SOUND
AMERICAN ANIMALS ANDREW STIRK THE FAVOURITE JOHNNIE BURN A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN SÉVERIN FAVRIAU TIME TRIAL CJ MIRRA YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE PAUL DAVIESBEST EFFECTS
DEAD IN A WEEK (OR YOUR MONEY BACK) MATTHEW STRANGE / MARK WELLBAND EARLY MAN HOWARD JONES PETERLOO GEORGE ZWIER / PAUL DRIVER
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Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2018 Audience Choice, Heterodox, Broadcast, Unforgettables and Nonfiction “Shorts List”
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The Cinema Eye Honors unveiled the first awards announcements for their 12th Annual awards, including The Unforgettables, their annual list of notable and significant nonfiction film subjects; The Shorts List, an annual list of the year’s ten top Nonfiction Short Films; and nominees in four categories: Broadcast Film; Broadcast Series; the Heterodox Award, which recognizes fiction films that actively blur the line between fiction and documentary; and the annual Audience Choice Prize. The full list of nonfiction film and craft nominees, including the five nominees for Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film, will be revealed on Thursday, November 8.
Eight films – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Free Solo, Stephen Loveridge’s Mantangi/Maya/M.I.A., Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap, Alexandria Bombach’s On Her Shoulders, Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s RBG, Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, Tim Wardle’s Three Identical Strangers and Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – were nominated for the Audience Choice Prize and also saw their subjects recognized amongst this year’s Unforgettables. Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks’ Quincy and Dava Whisenant’s Bathtubs Over Broadway round out this year’s Audience Choice nominees.
This is the first year that Cinema Eye will have an award to recognize Outstanding Nonfiction Series for Broadcast. Inaugural nominees in the Series category are Steve James’ America to Me (STARZ), Trey Borzilleri & Barbara Schroeder’s Evil Genius (Netflix), Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper & Jessica Dimmock’s Flint Town (Netflix) Liz Garbus’ The Fourth Estate (Showtime) Matthew Heineman’s The Trade (Showtime) and Chapman Way & Maclain Way’s Wild Wild Country (Netflix).
The 12th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will be presented on Thursday, January 10, 2019 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.
AUDIENCE CHOICE PRIZE NOMINEES
Bathtubs Over Broadway Directed by Dava Whisenant Free Solo Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. Directed by Stephen Loveridge Minding the Gap Directed by Bing Liu On Her Shoulders Directed by Alexandria Bombach Quincy Directed by Rashida Jones and Al Hicks RBG Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West Shirkers Directed by Sandi Tan Three Identical Strangers Directed by Tim Wardle Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Directed by Morgan NevilleNONFICTION SHORTS LIST
(Five nominees in this category will be announced on Thursday, November 8) Baby Brother Directed by Kamau Bilal Concussion Protocol Directed by Josh Begley The Earth is Humming Directed by Garrett Bradley My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes Directed by Charlie Tyrell A Night at the Garden Directed by Marshall Curry Las Nubes Directed by Juan Pablo González Sister Hearts Directed by Mohammad Gorjestani Skip Day Directed by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas Volte Directed by Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzala Zhalanash – Empty Shore Directed by Marcin SauterHETERODOX AWARD NOMINEES
American Animals Directed by Bart Layton Obscuro Barrocco Directed by Evangelia Kranioti Skate Kitchen Directed by Crystal Moselle The Tale Directed by Jennifer Fox We the Animals Directed by Jeremiah ZagarBROADCAST FILM NOMINEES
Baltimore Rising Directed by Sonja Sohn HBO Believer Directed by Don Argott HBO The Final Year Directed by Greg Barker HBO I Am Evidence Directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir HBO Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press Directed by Brian Knappenberger Netflix This is Home: A Refugee Story Directed by Alexandra Shiva EpixBROADCAST SERIES NOMINEES
America to Me Directed by Steve James Starz Evil Genius Directed by Trey Borzilleri and Barbara Schroeder Netflix Flint Town Directed by Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper and Jessica Dimmock Netflix The Fourth Estate Directed by Liz Garbus Showtime The Trade Directed by Matthew Heineman Showtime Wild Wild Country Directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way NetflixUNFORGETTABLES NONFICTION SUBJECTS OF 2018
Annette Ontell 306 Hollywood América América Issei Sagawa Caniba Alex Honnold Free Solo Julita Salmerón Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle Nick Bollettieri Love Means Zero M.I.A. Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. Kiere Johnson, Bing Liu and Zack Mulligan Minding the Gap Abu Osama Of Fathers and Sons Nadia Murad On Her Shoulders Ruth Bader Ginsburg RBG Scotty Bowers Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Georges Cardona, Jasmine Ng, Sophie Siddique and Sandi Tan Shirkers Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran Three Identical Strangers Fred Rogers Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Drama ON THE BASIS OF SEX to Receive SF Honors Award
Ruth Bader Ginsburg biographical drama On the Basis of Sex, directed by Mimi Leder will be presented with the third annual SF Honors award from SFFILM, along with a public screening event Saturday, November 10, 6:30 pm at the Castro Theatre. Lead actors Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer and screenwriter (and nephew of Ruth Bader Ginsburg) Daniel Stiepleman will attend in person and participate in a special pre-screening award presentation followed by an in-depth post-screening conversation about their work.
“Nothing could represent Bay Area values better than the remarkable early career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how she and her husband collaborated to remove gender bias from the laws of our country,” said SFFILM’s Executive Director Noah Cowan. “Mimi Leder has told this story beautifully with a magnificent lift from two of our finest young actors, Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer, and we are proud to name it this year’s SF Honors recipient. This award, a major event in the San Francisco cultural season, would not be possible without the support of Todd Traina and Diane B. Wilsey, significant long-time supporters of the cultural infrastructure of the Bay Area and of SFFILM.”
On the Basis of Sex tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere later this year, in line with Justice Ginsburg’s 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
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Now in its third edition, SF Honors adds a Bay Area voice to the end-of-year awards conversation with an annual award and tribute designed to bring particular attention to innovation and audacity in current cinema, featuring a screening and onstage conversation with the creators and cast of one of the best films of the year.
The inaugural SF Honors award was presented in 2016 to Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, with a public screening event and onstage conversation featuring writer/director Damien Chazelle, stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and composer Justin Hurwitz at the Castro Theatre. In 2017, SFFILM honored Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, with Wright, lead actor (and eventual Academy Award winner) Gary Oldman, co-star Ben Mendelsohn, writer/producer Anthony McCarten, and supervising sound editor Craig Berkey taking the stage to discuss their critical and popular hit film. SF Honors is made possible by a $1 million, ten-year gift from SFFILM’s Board Vice President Todd Traina and philanthropist Diane B. Wilsey.
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25 Animated Feature Films Submitted for 2018 Oscar Competition
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Tito and the Birds / Tito e os Pássaros[/caption]
Twenty-five features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.
Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process. Sixteen or more films must qualify for the maximum of five nominees to be voted.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
The 91st Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Ana y Bruno”
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”
“Early Man”
“Fireworks”
“Have a Nice Day”
“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”
“Incredibles 2”
“Isle of Dogs”
“The Laws of the Universe – Part I”
“Liz and the Blue Bird”
“Lu over the Wall”
“MFKZ”
“Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms”
“Mirai”
“The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl”
“On Happiness Road”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“Ruben Brandt, Collector”
“Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero”
“Sherlock Gnomes”
“Smallfoot”
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
“Tall Tales”
“Teen Titans Go! To the Movies”
“Tito and the Birds”
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THE FAVOURITE and FIRST REFORMED Lead 2018 IFP Gotham Awards Nominations
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The nominations for the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards were announced this morning, with The Favourite, and First Reformed leading with three nominations each, including for Best Feature and Best Screenplay. Other nominees for Best Feature include If Beale Street Could Talk directed by Barry Jenkins, Madeline’s Madeline directed by Josephine Decker, and The Rider directed by Chloe Zhao. The nominees for Best Documentary include Bisbee ’17 directed by Robert Greene, Hale County, This Morning, This Evening directed by RaMell Ross, Minding the Gap directed by Bing Liu, Shirkers directed by Sandi Tan, and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? directed by Morgan Neville. Gotham Tributes will be given to actors Rachel Weisz and Willem Dafoe, director Paul Greengrass, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Jon Kamen.
The Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 26th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
2018 IFP Gotham Award nominations
Best Feature
The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures) First Reformed Paul Schrader, director; Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, Gary Hamilton, Deepak Sikka, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray, producers (A24) If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Megan Ellison, producers (Annapurna Pictures) Madeline’s Madeline Josephine Decker, director; Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao, producers (Oscilloscope Laboratories) The Rider Chloé Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)Best Documentary
Bisbee ‘17 Robert Greene, producer; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott, producers (4th Row Films) Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers (The Cinema Guild) Minding the Gap Bing Liu, director; Diane Quon, Bing Liu, producers (Hulu & Magnolia Pictures) Shirkers Sandi Tan, director; Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph, producers (Netflix) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville, director; Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma, producers (Focus Features)Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ari Aster for Hereditary (A24) Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade (A24) Jennifer Fox for The Tale (HBO) Crystal Moselle for Skate Kitchen (Magnolia Pictures) Boots Riley for Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)Best Screenplay
The Favourite, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (Fox Searchlight Pictures) First Reformed, Paul Schrader (A24) Private Life, Tamara Jenkins (Netflix) Support the Girls, Andrew Bujalski (Magnolia Pictures) Thoroughbreds, Cory Finley (Focus Features)Best Actor
Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features) Ben Foster in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street) Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (A24) Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)Best Actress*
Glenn Close in The Wife (Sony Pictures Classics) Toni Collette in Hereditary (A24) Kathryn Hahn in Private Life (Netflix) Regina Hall in Support the Girls (Magnolia Pictures) Michelle Pfeiffer in Where is Kyra? (Paladin and Great Point Media) *The 2018 Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)Breakthrough Actor
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma (Netflix) Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade (A24) Helena Howard in Madeline’s Madeline (Oscilloscope Laboratories) KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures) Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)Breakthrough Series – Long Form
Alias Grace, Sarah Polley, Mary Harron, Noreen Halpern, executive producers (Netflix) Big Mouth, Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, creators; Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett, executive producers (Netflix) The End of the F***ing World, Andy Baker, Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, Ed MacDonald, Dominic Buchanan, Jonathan Entwistle, executive producers (Netflix) Killing Eve, Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, executive producers (BBC America) Pose, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Steven Canals, creators; Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sherry Marsh, executive producers (FX Networks) Sharp Objects, Marti Noxon, creator; Marti Noxon, Jason Blum, Gillian Flynn, Amy Adams, Jean-Marc Vallée, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg, Charles Layton, Marci Wiseman, Jessica Rhoades, executive producers (HBO)Breakthrough Series – Short Form
195 Lewis, Chanelle Aponte Pearson and Rae Leone Allen, creators Cleaner Daze, Tess Sweet and Daniel Gambelin, creators Distance, Alex Dobrenko, creator The F Word, Nicole Opper, creator She’s the Ticket, Nadia Hallgren, creator
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Ralph Fiennes to Receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award
Ralph Fiennes will receive the honorary award European Achievement in World Cinema Award at the 31st European Film Awards Ceremony on December 15, in Seville, in recognition of a rich and extensive career in front of and behind the camera.
Ralph Fiennes has been creating film experiences that continue to move and inspire us. Most recently he directed THE WHITE CROW about Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West, in which he also plays Pushkin. He was Charles Dickens in THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (2013) which he also directed. His directorial debut was the 2011 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s CORIOLANUS in which he also acted as the protagonist, earning him a BAFTA nomination. So did his role as the legendary concierge in Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014). Ralph Fiennes was Harry Hawkes in Luca Guadagnino’s A BIGGER SPLASH (2015) and Nazi officer Amon Goeth in Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) for which he won a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination.
He was the protagonist in Anthony Minghella’s THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996) for which he was again nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA. Further BAFTA nominations came for his role as Justin Quayle in Fernando Meirelles’ THE CONSTANT GARDENER (2005) and as novelist Maurice Bendrix in THE END OF THE AFFAIR by Neil Jordan (1999).
Ralph Fiennes worked with Stephen Daldry in THE READER (2008), with Robert Redford in QUIZ SHOW (1994) and with Gillian Armstrong in OSCAR AND LUCINDA (1997). He played the leading roles in his sister’s ONEGIN (1999), in SPIDER by David Cronenberg (2002) for which he was nominated for an EFA Audience Award, and in SUNSHINE by István Szabó for which he received an EFA as European Actor 1999. He also worked with Kathryn Bigelow in STRANGE DAYS (1995) and again in THE HURT LOCKER (2008).
And, of course, he is forever Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series and ‘M’ in the James Bond films SKYFALL and SPECTRE.
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FREE SOLO Leads Nominations for 3rd Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
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Free Solo leads the nominees for this year’s third annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards with six nominations and one honor, including Best Documentary, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi for Best Directors, Best Sports Documentary, Most Innovative Documentary, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and a Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary honor for Alex Honnold.
Recognized with five nominations are Minding the Gap and Wild Wild Country.
The nominations for Minding the Gap are Best Documentary, Best Sports Documentary, Bing Liu for Best Director and for Best First Time Director, and Best Cinematography.
The nominations for Wild Wild Country are Best Documentary, Chapman Way and Maclain Way for Best First Time Directors, Most Innovative Documentary, Best Cinematography, and Best Limited Documentary Series.
Recognized with four nominations are Dark Money, Hitler’s Hollywood and Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
The nominations for Dark Money are Best Documentary, Kimberly Reed for Best Director, Best Political Documentary and Best Editing.
The nominations for Hitler’s Hollywood are Best Documentary, Best Political Documentary, Rüdiger Suchsland for Best Director, and Most Innovative Documentary.
The nominations for Won’t You Be My Neighbor? are Best Documentary, Morgan Neville for Best Director, Most Innovative Documentary and Best Editing.
Three Identical Strangers received three nominations and an honor, including Best Documentary, Tim Wardle for Best Director, Best Editing and an honor for David Kellman and Bobby Shafran for Most Compelling Living Subjects of a Documentary.
At the gala ceremony, filmmaker Stanley Nelson will be presented with the Critics’ Choice Impact Award, and multi award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore will be honored with the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award.
For the first year, the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards has introduced the Catalyst Sponsorship, a program for industry leaders to support the event. The inaugural sponsors include Focus Features, National Geographic Documentary Films, Netflix, Curiosity Stream, and others.
“We are thrilled to celebrate this year’s outstanding documentary work at the upcoming event,” said Broadcast Film Critics Association President Joey Berlin. “The year 2018 has been called ‘The Year of the Documentary’ and we are so happy to give these films and shows the recognition and high praise that they deserve.”
The winners will be presented their awards at a gala event, hosted by science educator and television personality Bill Nye, on Saturday, November 10 at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York.
The nominees for the third annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards are:
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Crime + Punishment – Director: Stephen Maing (Hulu) Dark Money – Director: Kimberly Reed (PBS) Free Solo – Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (National Geographic Documentary Films) Hal – Director: Amy Scott (Oscilloscope) Hitler’s Hollywood – Director: Rüdiger Suchsland (Kino Lorber) Minding the Gap – Director: Bing Liu (Hulu) RBG – Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West (Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media) Three Identical Strangers – Director: Tim Wardle (Neon, CNN Films) Wild Wild Country – Directors: Chapman Way, Maclain Way (Netflix) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Director: Morgan Neville (Focus Features)BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
America to Me (Starz) Dirty Money (Netflix) Elvis Presley: The Searcher (HBO Documentary Films, Sony Pictures Television) Flint Town (Netflix) One Strange Rock (National Geographic) The Fourth Estate (Showtime Networks) The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (HBO) Wild Wild Country (Netflix)BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIES
30 for 30 (ESPN) American Masters (PBS) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN) Frontline (PBS) Independent Lens (PBS) Making a Murderer (Netflix) POV (PBS) The History of Comedy (CNN)BEST DIRECTOR
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Free Solo (National Geographic Documentary Film) Bing Liu – Minding the Gap (Hulu) Morgan Neville – Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Focus Features) Kimberly Reed – Dark Money (PBS) Rüdiger Suchsland – Hitler’s Hollywood (Kino Lorber) Tim Wardle – Three Identical Strangers (Neon, CNN Films)BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster – Science Fair (National Geographic Documentary Films) Heather Lenz – Kusama – Infinity (Magnolia Pictures) Bing Liu – Minding the Gap (Hulu) Stephen Nomura Schible – Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (MUBI) Rudy Valdez – The Sentence (HBO Documentary Films) Chapman Way and Maclain Way – Wild Wild Country (Netflix)BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
RBG – Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West (Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media) Dark Money – Director: Kimberly Reed (PBS) Fahrenheit 11/9 – Director: Michael Moore (Briarcliff Entertainment) Flint Town – Directors: Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper, Jessica Dimmock (Netflix) Hitler’s Hollywood – Director: Rüdiger Suchsland (Kino Lorber) John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls – Directors: George Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt (HBO) The Fourth Estate – Directors: Liz Garbus, Jenny Carchman (Showtime Networks)BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
Andre the Giant – Director: Jason Hehir (HBO) Being Serena (HBO) Free Solo – Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (National Geographic Documentary Film) John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection – Director: Julien Faraut (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Minding the Gap – Director: Bing Liu (Hulu) The Workers Cup – Director: Adam Sobel (Passion River)BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Bad Reputation – Director: Kevin Kerslake (Magnolia Pictures) David Bowie: The Last Five Years – Director: Francis Whately (HBO Documentary Films) Elvis Presley: The Searcher – Director: Thom Zimny (HBO Documentary Films, Sony Pictures Television) Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow – Director: Stephen Kijak (Showtime Networks) Quincy – Directors: Alan Hicks, Rashida Jones (Netflix) Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda – Director: Stephen Nomura Schible (MUBI) Whitney – Director: Kevin Macdonald (Roadside Attractions, Miramax)MOST COMPELLING LIVING SUBJECT OF A DOCUMENTARY
(ALL LISTED IN THE CATEGORY WILL BE HONORED AT THE EVENT) Scotty Bowers – Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (Greenwich Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Starz!) Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RBG (Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media) Alex Honnold – Free Solo (National Geographic Documentary Film) Joan Jett – Bad Reputation (Magnolia Pictures) Quincy Jones – Quincy (Netflix) David Kellman and Bobby Shafran – Three Identical Strangers (Neon, CNN Films) John McEnroe – John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Leon Vitali – Filmworker (Kino Lorber)MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY
306 Hollywood – Directors: Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin (PBS, El Tigre) Free Solo – Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (National Geographic Documentary Film) Hitler’s Hollywood – Director: Rüdiger Suchsland (Kino Lorber) Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda – Director: Stephen Nomura Schible (MUBI) Wild Wild Country – Directors: Chapman Way, Maclain Way (Netflix) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Director: Morgan Neville (Focus Features)BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
306 Hollywood – Cinematographers: Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin, Alejandro Mejía (PBS, El Tigre) The Dawn Wall – Cinematographer: Brett Lowell (The Orchard) Free Solo – Cinematographers: Jimmy Chin, Clair Popkin, Mikey Schaefer (National Geographic Documentary Film) Minding the Gap – Cinematographer: Bing Liu (Hulu) Pandas – Cinematographer: David Douglas (Warner Brothers) Wild Wild Country – Cinematographer: Adam Stone (Netflix)BEST EDITING
Dark Money – Editor: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg (PBS) Filmworker – Editor: Tony Zierra (Kino Lorber) Free Solo – Editor: Bob Eisenhardt (National Geographic Documentary Film) John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection – Editor: Julien Faraut (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Three Identical Strangers – Editor: Michael Harte (Neon, CNN Films) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Editors: Jeff Malmberg, Aaron Wickenden (Focus Features)
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Honors 45th Student Academy Awards Winners
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its 45th Annual Student Academy Awards® on Thursday, October 11, in Beverly Hills. Pictured (left to right): Irina Nguyen-Duc, Hanna Kim, Pierre Perveyrie, Shae Demandt, Mart Bira, Quentin Dubois, Jonatan Etzler, Maximilien Bougeois and Mathieu Faure.[/caption]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored this year’s student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 45th Student Academy Awards ceremony, held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards were announced and presented by documentarian Arthur Dong, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani and directors Catherine Hardwicke and Patricia Riggen.
2018 Student Academy Award winners
Alternative (Domestic Film Schools) Gold: Shae Demandt, “Reanimated,” Florida State University Animation (Domestic Film Schools) Gold: Hanna Kim, “Raccoon and the Light,” California Institute of the Arts Silver: Yu Yu, “Daisy,” University of Southern California Bronze: Eaza Shukla, “Re-Gifted,” Ringling College of Art and Design Animation (International Film Schools) Gold: Pierre Perveyrie, Maximilien Bougeois, Marine Goalard, Irina Nguyen-Duc and Quentin Dubois, “The Green Bird,” MOPA Documentary (Domestic Film Schools) Gold: Mathieu Faure, “An Edited Life,” New York University Silver: Yiying Li, “Love & Loss,” University of Southern California Bronze: Lauren Schwartzman, “Dust Rising,” University of California, Berkeley Documentary (International Film Schools) Gold: Mart Bira, “Nomadic Doctor,” University of Hertfordshire Narrative (Domestic Film Schools) Gold: Hua Tong, “Spring Flower,” University of Southern California Silver: Kelley Kali, “Lalo’s House,” University of Southern California Bronze: Brian Robau, “Esta Es Tu Cuba”/“This Is Your Cuba,” Chapman University Narrative (International Film Schools) Gold: Jonatan Etzler, “Get Ready with Me,” Stockholm Academy of the Arts Silver: Lisa Gertsch, “Almost Everything,” Zurich University of the Arts Bronze: István Kovács, “A Siege,” University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest
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87 Countries Submit Films in 2018 Oscar Foreign Language Competition
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Eighty-seven countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 91st Academy Awards. Malawi and Niger are first-time entrants.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
The 91st Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
The 2018 submissions are:
Afghanistan, “Rona Azim’s Mother,” Jamshid Mahmoudi, director;
Algeria, “Until the End of Time,” Yasmine Chouikh, director;
Argentina, “El Ángel,” Luis Ortega, director;
Armenia, “Spitak,” Alexander Kott, director;
Australia, “Jirga,” Benjamin Gilmour, director;
Austria, “The Waldheim Waltz,” Ruth Beckermann, director;
Bangladesh, “No Bed of Roses,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, director;
Belarus, “Crystal Swan,” Darya Zhuk, director;
Belgium, “Girl,” Lukas Dhont, director;
Bolivia, “The Goalkeeper,” Rodrigo “Gory” Patiño, director;
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Never Leave Me,” Aida Begić, director;
Brazil, “The Great Mystical Circus,” Carlos Diegues, director;
Bulgaria, “Omnipresent,” Ilian Djevelekov, director;
Cambodia, “Graves without a Name,” Rithy Panh, director;
Canada, “Family Ties,” Sophie Dupuis, director;
Chile, “…And Suddenly the Dawn,” Silvio Caiozzi, director;
China, “Hidden Man,” Jiang Wen, director;
Colombia, “Birds of Passage,” Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra, directors;
Costa Rica, “Medea,” Alexandra Latishev, director;
Croatia, “The Eighth Commissioner,” Ivan Salaj, director;
Czech Republic, “Winter Flies,” Olmo Omerzu, director;
Denmark, “The Guilty,” Gustav Möller, director;
Dominican Republic, “Cocote,” Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, director;
Ecuador, “A Son of Man,” Jamaicanoproblem, director;
Egypt, “Yomeddine,” A.B. Shawky, director;
Estonia, “Take It or Leave It,” Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo, director;
Finland, “Euthanizer,” Teemu Nikki, director;
France, “Memoir of War,” Emmanuel Finkiel, director;
Georgia, “Namme,” Zaza Khalvashi, director;
Germany, “Never Look Away,” Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director;
Greece, “Polyxeni,” Dora Masklavanou, director;
Hong Kong, “Operation Red Sea,” Dante Lam, director;
Hungary, “Sunset,” László Nemes, director;
Iceland, “Woman at War,” Benedikt Erlingsson, director;
India, “Village Rockstars,” Rima Das, director;
Indonesia, “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts,” Mouly Surya, director;
Iran, “No Date, No Signature,” Vahid Jalilvand, director;
Iraq, “The Journey,” Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji, director;
Israel, “The Cakemaker,” Ofir Raul Graizer, director;
Italy, “Dogman,” Matteo Garrone, director;
Japan, “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, director;
Kazakhstan, “Ayka,” Sergey Dvortsevoy, director;
Kenya, “Supa Modo,” Likarion Wainaina, director;
Kosovo, “The Marriage,” Blerta Zeqiri, director;
Latvia, “To Be Continued,” Ivars Seleckis, director;
Lebanon, “Capernaum,” Nadine Labaki, director;
Lithuania, “Wonderful Losers: A Different World,” Arunas Matelis, director;
Luxembourg, “Gutland,” Govinda Van Maele, director;
Macedonia, “Secret Ingredient,” Gjorce Stavreski, director;
Malawi, “The Road to Sunrise,” Shemu Joyah, director;
Mexico, “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón, director;
Montenegro, “Iskra,” Gojko Berkuljan, director;
Morocco, “Burnout,” Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, director;
Nepal, “Panchayat,” Shivam Adhikari, director;
Netherlands, “The Resistance Banker,” Joram Lürsen, director;
New Zealand, “Yellow Is Forbidden,” Pietra Brettkelly, director;
Niger, “The Wedding Ring,” Rahmatou Keïta, director;
Norway, “What Will People Say,” Iram Haq, director;
Pakistan, “Cake,” Asim Abbasi, director;
Palestine, “Ghost Hunting,” Raed Andoni, director;
Panama, “Ruben Blades Is Not My Name,” Abner Benaim, director;
Paraguay, “The Heiresses,” Marcelo Martinessi, director;
Peru, “Eternity,” Oscar Catacora, director;
Philippines, “Signal Rock,” Chito S. Roño, director;
Poland, “Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski, director;
Portugal, “Pilgrimage,” João Botelho, director;
Romania, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” Radu Jude, director;
Russia, “Sobibor,” Konstantin Khabensky, director;
Serbia, “Offenders,” Dejan Zecevic, director;
Singapore, “Buffalo Boys,” Mike Wiluan, director;
Slovakia, “The Interpreter,” Martin Šulík, director;
Slovenia, “Ivan,” Janez Burger, director;
South Africa, “Sew the Winter to My Skin,” Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, director;
South Korea, “Burning,” Lee Chang-dong, director;
Spain, “Champions,” Javier Fesser, director;
Sweden, “Border,” Ali Abbasi, director;
Switzerland, “Eldorado,” Markus Imhoof, director;
Taiwan, “The Great Buddha+,” Hsin-Yao Huang, director;
Thailand, “Malila The Farewell Flower,” Anucha Boonyawatana, director;
Tunisia, “Beauty and the Dogs,” Kaouther Ben Hania, director;
Turkey, “The Wild Pear Tree,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director;
Ukraine, “Donbass,” Sergei Loznitsa, director;
United Kingdom, “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni, director;
Uruguay, “Twelve-Year Night,” Álvaro Brechner, director;
Venezuela, “The Family,” Gustavo Rondón Córdova, director;
Vietnam, “The Tailor,” Buu Loc Tran, Kay Nguyen, directors;
Yemen, “10 Days before the Wedding,” Amr Gamal, director.